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Overture To Space Mar by Martin Caidin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Overture To Space Mar about?
Overture to Space by Martin Caidin is a major work by a world authority on aeronautics and astronautics. In this book, Martin Caidin has written the history of the first years of the Space Age, reviewing in broad but authoritative fashion the record of its achievements and failures, the problems and threats of the space race, national and world political aspects, and questions of policy now and for the precarious future. Here are the pioneers: From Gaston and Albert Tissandier, Dr. John Sheldon, Glaisher and Coxwell, balloonists who ascended, prior to 1800, higher than man had ever deemed possible, to Major David G. Simons, whose balloon ascent to 103,000 feet in 1958 made history. Here also are the test pilots of Edwards Air Force Base and Captain Charles Yeager’s heroic flights in the XS‐1 and X1‐A; the Russian cosmonauts Titov and Gagarin; America’s own astronauts Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, and Schirra; and the satellites, Echo, Vanguard, Explorer, Telstar, Tiros; and the exploration of Venus by Mariner II. Far more than a cataloging of Space Age achievements, Overture to space is a clear-eyed, hard-headed look at the implications for today and for the future of man’s n
Who reads Overture To Space Mar?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin Caidin
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan & Pearce
- Published
- 1963
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Astronomy
